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KimLuster on Oct. 1, 2016
Omniscience means all-knowing, and some might say when you know all, you also know your own future, including the result of all your future decisions and choices… And you can't change them, because if you could, you didn't know the real future after all…
Omniscience robs a being of free-will (or course, you'd have to be omniscient to really know that…!). Of also of course, other's say no one has freewill at all - we just can't see the future to know that we don't.
In Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan told Silk Spectre that he was just as bound as everyone else, just as much a puppet as she was. The difference was, with him being omniscient, that he was a puppet who could see the strings…!
It's an unanswerable question - only omniscient beings might know… and they ain't tellin'!!
Will Kimber Lee ‘choose’ to join their club…?
As for describing her predicament, Bravo's Fig Newton analogies were too good to pass on…
Thanks for reading everyone!!
Whirlwynd at 7:58PM, Oct. 2, 2016
What ARE those structures? hmm
bravo1102 at 3:40AM, Oct. 2, 2016
There was an old Science Fiction short story which postulated humans really were all-knowing it's just that living on a planet limited our awareness. In a Michael Critchton novel explorers find a device from beyond that makes them all-knowing and all-powerful. But they realize it's too powerful so they all agree to forget...
fallopiancrusader at 3:11PM, Oct. 1, 2016
@bravo1102: My philosophy of life stems from Sgt. Schultz of Hogan's Heroes: "I know nothing... I see nothing..."
KimLuster at 10:54AM, Oct. 1, 2016
@bravo: yeah yeah like you'd know! You'd have to be omniscient to know that... wait a sec...! are you...! who... what are you...?!!
KimLuster at 10:52AM, Oct. 1, 2016
@FC: Thanks! and I think you're right...!!
bravo1102 at 10:31AM, Oct. 1, 2016
I am you as you are me and we are all together. Free will is an illusion born of a limited consciousness. When you know everything you don't need free will because it doesn't really exist anyway. But if you really did know everything you could do whatever you wanted so you could perpetuate the illusion by limiting your self knowledge. Just because you can know everything, doesn't mean you have to be aware of everything all the time. Choose what you want to be aware of because all knowing means you know how to do that...
fallopiancrusader at 7:08AM, Oct. 1, 2016
I believe it was Lao-Tzu who first compared the universe to a fig newton... Great page layout! It would make a great painting to hang on the wall.